View From The Brig(gs): PUNISHER, TALON, a Bit of PI & More!

Hey, gang. Well, welcome to my first actual trawl through "What's Out There That I Think's Cool, That I Think You Should Be Consuming". This is basically what you'll be seeing in this column, with a few detours for minor rants. There's two weeks' worth of stuff here, so I apologize if there's a lot to get through. Hey, it's not like they're paying me by the word. (Hell, they're not paying me at all!)

MOVIES
On movie screens right now, there's a couple of things you should have seen (so, if you haven't, get out there now).

Tops for me is still "Life Of Pi", and "Lincoln". "Life Of Pi" was a colossal surprise to me. I'd managed to avoid watching a trailer, and (not having read the book, especially) had serious misgivings about the ability of Lee to sustain what I knew about the premise for the duration of the movie.

Boy, was I surprised. Whimsical and touching, the closest thing I can liken this to is "Cast Away", if Wilson maybe had teeth and they largely forgot about the island.